Serena Software announced last month their new change and release management
capabilities for its Orchestrated IT solution set. The newly
enhanced solutions provide essential tooling for IT shops that are embracing the
DevOps movement, as well as those that are simply looking to increase their
change and release cadence.
DevOps has become a primary driver for IT organizations
that are delivering Revenue Applications (RevApps), software applications that directly
transact customer activity and bring in considerable revenue to the enterprise.
The speed and frequency with which RevApps get enhanced directly impacts how
quickly the business can respond to customer requests, competitive moves and
changing market conditions.
Serena’s response is a series of enhancements
that provide developers with self-service provisioning of environments (to go
with previously available self-service application deployment), more cloud and
virtualized infrastructure deployment targets, improved resource management and
demand planning, as well as other enhancements that significantly reduce development
and operations hassles.
The new capabilities available in version 4.5 of Serena’s Orchestrated
IT solutions include:
Self-Service
Provisioning of Environments
- A new on-demand
self-service portal enables developers and QA teams to immediately spin up,
and later tear down, the environments they need for application development
and testing.
- Developer
self-service capabilities free IT operations staff from manual provisioning
so they can focus on IT infrastructure and performance improvements for
the business.
Release Automation
Targets Now include Windows Azure and VMware ESX/ESXi
- Target
deployment environments now include cloud platforms Windows Azure, and Amazon
EC2, along with leading virtualized environments VMware ESX/ ESXi.
- Serena
Release Automation now includes advanced load-balancing and failover capabilities simplifying enterprise
adoption.
- Serena
Release Automation is now localized into Japanese.
Hassle-Free Capturing
Of Change Request Actuals
- Development
managers can now easily capture the costs of specific tasks and easily link
them to approved change requests. Low-impact capture and roll-up of the
time spent on change request activities allows accurate assessment of the
resources utilized by a project.
- Business
change requests can be easily tracked from planning through to development.
“DevOps
allows IT to become truly agile,” commented Greg Hughes, president and CEO of
Serena Software. “Serena’s enhanced change and release management capabilities
allow Dev to exploit more self-service functions and Ops to release at the
rapid cadence required of today’s Revenue Applications.”
“Revenue Applications play a critical role in
the success of business today. This is
true in traditional, as well as newer market segments,” said Rich Ptak,
managing partner and cofounder of Ptak/Noel. “Serena’s latest release of its
Orchestrated IT solutions goes right to the heart of DevOps. By streamlining change and release management
it helps businesses keep these important apps current and operating to deliver
exceptional customer experience.”
The
new Serena 4.5 Orchestrated IT solutions will be generally available now. Pricing
starts at $12,500 for 250 users.
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